Among Farmers

AMONG Farmers: Saviors IN THE NIGHT (Unter Bauern: Retter in der Nacht) Dallas Premiere Drama / German with English subtitles / 100 min. / 2009 Based on the true narrative of Marga Spiegel published in 1965. It is 1943 and the Spiegel family — Menne, Marga, and daughter Karin, desperately seek refuge from deportation to the extermination camps in the East. They turn to their gentile Westphalian farmer friends who, without reservation, offer them protection from the Nazis. Tension mounts as the families are thrust into uncomfortably close proximity with one another, always seeming to be just one short step away from discovery. This movie is a moving tribute to the courage and humanity of these farmers (immortalized at Yad Vashem) and a celebration of the b